PowerPage: The migration blues

I've been getting a ton of email to ask about the deal with my Web site: O'Grady's PowerPage. First, let me dispel some rumors. The PowerPage wasn't shut down by Apple legal, a Denial-Of-Service (DOS) attack or unpaid domain or hosting bills. And we certainly weren't acquired by a large media company (my favorite). The PowerPage is simply suffering from a case of the migration blues.

I've been getting a ton of email to ask about the deal with my Web site: O'Grady's PowerPage. First, let me dispel some rumors. The PowerPage wasn't shut down by Apple legal, a Denial-Of-Service (DOS) attack or unpaid domain or hosting bills. And we certainly weren't acquired by a large media company (my favorite). The PowerPage is simply suffering from a case of the migration blues.

Our ISP switched servers from 32-bit to 64-bit Linux and it wreaked havoc on our Web Objects back end. As a stopgap we're pointing the PowerPage.org domain to a temporary location on the new server, but many people can't reach it because it lives at port 6001, which is blocked by many firewalls.

We're at an impasse and forced with a decision. Patch the PowerPage's leaking WOA code or put that effort into launching our new re-designed site on Movable Type (which works fine on 64-bit Linux, btw.) Rather than invest the time in fixing bugs with the old site we decided to press forward with the move to MT. We're working hard to get PowerPage.org online by tomorrow night before the big Wednesday announcements from Apple, but not promising anything at this point.

In the mean time you can keep up with me here at my new digs at ZDNet and (hopefully) soon back at PowerPage.org to celebrate our tenth anniversary in December.